Photo: Homemade camera outdoes digital

It looks like it's straight out of the 19th century, but pictures from Clifford Ross' R1 meet very modern needs.

9 December 20049:58 pm GMT

Homemade camera outdoes digital

Negatives from the nondigital R1 camera--the components of which include 60-year-old camera parts, mirrors and a microscope--let photographer Clifford Ross produce images that contain 100 times as much data as the average professional digital camera.